Reading/Multimedia/Meetings/Next Cycle 3 Q4 2013-14

The Wikimedia Foundation's multimedia team held planning meetings for our next development cycle on June 5 and 16, 2014 in San Francisco. Here are our notes, prepared collaboratively on this shared notepad.

Our next development cycle starts on June 11, and ends on July 22 (overlapping fiscal Q4 and Q1).

For this 6-week cycle, we plan to wrap up the Media Viewer project and start work on our next two big projects this year: Upload Wizard and Structured Data — while reserving about a third of our time to address critical bugs and technical debt for other multimedia tools.

For this next 6-week cycle, we propose to invest our time between these main projects:

Estimate Stories proposed for this Next Cycle and come up with the final list based on the estimations and capacity of the team (30min).

Estimate Backlog left for Current Cycle

Identify top candidates for Next Cycle

Estimate new tasks under consideration for Next Cycle

The Current Cycle wall now includes separate columns for Media Viewer (14-22 points), Structured Data (9 points), Tech Debt (18 points) and Upload Wizard (14-22 points). We don't expect to complete all these tasks in this cycle, as they exceed the anticipated team capacity for this period, but wanted to have the flexibility to choose between different options as circumstances dictate.

For our first two weekly sprints, our focus will be on these Media Viewer improvements, to address community concerns on English and German Wikipedias:

View original file (#630)

View different image sizes (#664)

Scroll down to see more info (#697)

Show Commons link to logged out users (#429)

Instant Opt-out (#703)

Opt-out for anons (#704)

Add tooltips to Media Viewer (#546)

Disable MediaViewer for certain images (#511)

The features above are expected to deploy on all wikis tomorrow. Many of them are live already on Media Viewer sites, and we are starting to hear positive responses on our talk pages, with survey approvals trending up for English and German users.

We have started planning and development on Upload Wizard, which will be our main user-facing project in the coming year. For now, we are focusing on metrics, feedback, bug fixes, unit tests, code refactoring and a few small user interface improvements.